Redlining

Before the Great Migration, there were not many African American outside of the rural southern states. However, in the early 1900s, African American saw more labor and social, economic opportunities in the North factories and industrial industry located in the Northern states; hence the movement began. But this movement still limited African American population to the East Coast; it was not until the Great Depression and World War II that pushed this population to migrate further north, Midwest…

On August 9th in 2014, police officer Darren Wilson stopped two young black males walking in the road and asks them to move out of the road, a short distance from a liquor store that was just robbed, and according to the officer he notices they match the description of the suspects. After the officer calls into dispatch he says he attempted to block the suspects in and at this point Mr. Brown and Officer Wilson become involved in an altercation. At this point Officer Wilson apparently shot…

Literary Analysis: A Raisin in the Sun Premiering March 11, 1959, Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun made history as the first Broadway play written by an African American woman. Despite being risky and controversial in the thick of the American Civil Rights Movement, the production, boasting a black director and almost exclusively black cast, garnered both critical acclaim and box office success. Most recently, it was revived this month at Arena Stage in Washington D.C. Centered on the…

The black individuals with more money and more education were in the perfect positions to go and seize the opportunities that affirmative action offered.(Mainstream). For black individuals that were poorer and lack education affirmative action was unattainable. Later, the black individuals that received jobs , education and training moved away from the individuals that lack in all categories, named the abandoned. Affirmative action led to the creation of the Mainstream and Abandoned. Mainstream…

There is no denying that black people in America have been mistreated in the past; almost every American can agree on this, regardless of their race. However, the argument of whether the effects of this mistreatment exist today is a more complex and controversial one. Even more controversial is the argument of whether black people should recieve reparations. In his article “The Case for Reparations”, Ta-Nehisi Coates argues for the need for reparations for black Americans due to a number of…

Many may argue that society has been set free from Jim Crow Laws. Laws that convinced humanity that racial discrimination was fair. However, I can assure you that this untrue. Today, Jim Crow Laws still live, especially within the air we breathe and water we drink. This is known as environmental racism, which is defined by author Robert D. Bullard in his article Dismantling Environmental Racism as ¨any environmental policy, practice or directive that differentially affects or disadvantages…

INTRODUCTION I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in the state whereas they will not be arbitrated by the color of their skin, but the content of their character. These are the influential words of Martin Luther king Jr as he stood opposing discrimination. Discrimination separates people that demand to work hand in hand alongside every single supplementary in order to make the globe a larger locale to live in, as it creates bad blood amongst supplementary people.…

and systemic inequality (i.e. income, housing, jobs, prenatal care, etc.). Thus so, the aforementioned risk factor of childhood exposure to lead or mercury and similar environmental risk factors, are a direct result of poor housing facilities, redlining, and gentrification--systemic…

INTRODUCTION Education is one of the best ways to improve your financial situation and rise from poverty. Through education, you learn necessary skills for going the workforce and becoming successful in the modern world. As well, you get the opportunity to expand your mind and explore ideas and concepts different from your own. People go to school to gain a job to make money to live a good life. We all grow up with the ideas of The American Dream, the idea that anything’s possible if you work…

minority races were only given menial jobs, and for strength, they joined together in ethnic neighborhoods. Blacks specifically were also kept from moving into prosperous, predominantly white, suburban neighborhoods through the unfair process of redlining. Unfortunately, without the opportunities to rise in status, blacks were perpetually forced down into poorer neighborhoods, generation after generation. Without a fair access to education and opportunities to better themselves in the past, and…